Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.